Supplier payments feature allows you to manage and track the process of paying your suppliers. Once you have set up the payment terms for suppliers, you can keep track of payment details for all confirmed bookings for each itinerary and you can modify/change the payment details for supplier payments in the itinerary.
Booking items will only appear in the Payments>Supplier Payments subtab for Suppliers with active Payment terms or for Items with confirmed Booking status assigned. Payment Terms help file is here.
Generate and view supplier payments for an itinerary
- Create an Itinerary.
- Add booking items to the Build tab.
- Navigate to the Bookings to update booking item status to a confirmed booking status if payment terms do not relate to a payment Due Date.
The below Booking status are considered confirmed statuses:
- Booking confirmed
- Amendment confirmed
- Cancellation confirmed with fee
- Provisional Hold
- To view upcoming payments select the Payments tab then click on the Supplier Payments subtab.
- To confirm a supplier payment is Paid, select the more option icon and click Edit.
Edit the supplier payment modal with the following fields and click Save when finished.
- Invoice number – User can enter the Invoice number provided by the Supplier
- Due date – This is auto filled based on the Payment schedule, but it can be edited
- Amount due – This is auto filled and pulled from the Itinerary Pricing section. It can be edited but edits should happen on the Pricing tab and the Refresh payments should then be clicked.
- Amount paid – This is the total amount paid if multiple supplier payments are made.
- Date paid – Can be edited and/or updated.
Once saved the payment status for each Item will displayed. The Statuses are:
- PARTIAL – will display when a payments is for less than the Amount due
- PAID – will display when a payment exactly matches the Amount due
- OVERPAID – will display when a payment is for more than the Amount due
- OVERDUE – will display when no payment is recorded past the Due date
Note: The Amount due will be the Net item price unless Referral commission payment type applies. See more below.
Actions
Once you have selected one or more Supplier payment records, you can perform following actions:
Refresh: There are times when Itinerary Booking prices or the Supplier Payments term is changed which needs to be reflected in the Itinerary-> Payments section. The Refresh payments button allows the User to fetch the updated prices from the Itinerary-> Pricing into the Itinerary-> Payments-> Supplier payments records and the Payment Due date based on the Supplier Payment terms.
Note: Only unlocked Payment records having Booking status as Booking confirmed or Booking Provisional or Amendment confirmed or Amendment Provisional or Cancellation confirmed with fee and will be refreshed.
Export to CSV: Supplier payment records will be exported to a CSV file which you can import into Xero.
Send to Xero(if Xero integration is enabled): Performing this function will send send Payments data to Xero.
Note: Only unpaid payments can be sent to Xero.
Mark selected record as paid: This will mark the selected Payment records as Paid and set the Amount paid equals to the Amount due. Date paid will be set to todays date.
Lock selected: This will lock the selected Payment records.
Unlock selected: This will unlock the selected Payment records which are locked.
Delete selected: Selected payments will be deleted except, unlocked payments, Payments in inactive booking cycle, Payments where the amount is not marked as Paid, Payments with Xero bill payment.
Referral commission payment type
Supplier payments assigned the referral commission payment type are a slightly different type of supplier payment whereby the Gross item price is paid to the suppler instead of the Net item price. The margin is then made via a commission remittance payment at a later stage.
Like all supplier payments, the supplier payments fields are for managing the payment to the Supplier.
A referral commission payment type can only be configured at the Supplier> Product setup before the product is added to an itinerary.
Once the Item is set to a Confirmed booking status:
- Select the Supplier payments tab
- Navigate to the payment assigned as Referral commission payment type
- The Amount due will be the Gross value
- A blue i icon will display with a hover tool tip
- Hover over the i to see:
- Referral commission label
- Amount due explanation
- Referral commission amount due explanation
- Etc
Edit referral commission payment type
The Edit supplier payment dialog allows access to the Referral commission payment fields to record when referral commission from the supplier has been received.
Amount due: The commission Amount due is the item price margin (ie Gross - Net = Margin) and can only be adjusted on the itinerary pricing tab.
Date received: By default this field is blank. When a date is applied this will mark the commission payment as received for the date applied.
Mark commission as received
To quickly mark a commission payment as received with todays date:
- On the Supplier payments tab
- For the selected supplier payment click the ... More
- Select the Mark commission as received option
Note: Your Zoho Analytics workspace can be configured to report on referral commission payments due and received.